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Abstract

Indic Script Support on the Windows Platform

Cathy Wissink - Microsoft Corporation

Intended Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Systems Analysts
Session Level: Intermediate

The advent of single worldwide source on Windows 2000 enabled Microsoft to support Indic scripts on the Windows platform for the first time. Starting with Hindi, Konkani, Marathi, Sanskrit and Tamil on Windows 2000, Windows XP added support for Kannada, Telugu, Gujarati and Punjabi. The next major release of Windows will add yet more Indic script support. This presentation will focus on the technical and political challenges particular to enabling Indic scripts on Windows, and the specific technologies that make that Indic support possible.

Participants should come away with a basic understanding of the relationship between a linguistic character in Indic and codepoints in Unicode, and how that relates to the underlying technologies on the platform, including:
--the interaction of input, fonts and rendering engines
--legacy codepages versus Unicode
--the misunderstood need for an IME (versus a keyboard)
--collation

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